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> "Lazy reader" is precisely the audience for scientific papers

Exactly.

There are plenty of personalities and pundits that love to say "look at the data" or "the data is clear".

It bugs me when data is weaponized as truth to prove a conjecture, especially in the social sciences where studies are routinely difficult to replicate with consistent results.



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